Choose life
Study The Word
Romans 8:2 KJV
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
Three thousand and half years ago, a man, a Prophet named Moses preaches a message being moved by the Holy Spirit, probably not even knowing that it was about an eternal truth of what is now our life in Christ. And that truth will be concluded by the Apostle Paul, a truth that will transform your life forever: you have been made “free from the law of sin and death”! The word of God we find in the Bible is not a suggestion or just random nice ideas and theories; these are the realities and everyday experiences of those who have fully accepted all the truth of all the finished works of Jesus Christ. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ is a spiritual law that has superseded a destructive one – the law of sin and death. So for example, just as gravity is a law, so is the “law of sin and death” being a spiritual principle that operates in those who have not accepted Jesus Christ. But now, there’s also a higher law, just as aerodynamics is also a law, so is the “law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus,” is a superior spiritual law working in the hearts of those who have accepted Jesus Christ.
ἐλευθερόω eleutheroo made me free – set at liberty, liberate, exempt, make free, set to freedom
Think of it like this: if a person jumps of a high cliff, they will fall due to the law of gravity. Nobody has seen gravity with their eyes or to isolate and capture it in a test tube, but we’ve all come to know that although it is invisible, it surely is real because we have seen it’s effects. On the other hand, if the same person were to be on a plane, they’d defy the law of gravity because a higher law—aerodynamics— now being at work, although invisible we know it’s there because we see it’s effects. Similarly, in the reality of the spiritual realm that govern human existence are these two laws at work in the lives of men – the law of sin and death, and the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus; although invisible we see their effect in the lives of men. Galatians 5:19 – 21 details for us the effects of the law of sin in the hearts of men, and Galatians 5:22 – 24 reveals to us the effects of the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus; the latter unto eternal death and eternal separation from God and the former to eternal life and eternal union with Him.
When you receive Jesus Christ into your heart, the sin nature that is empowered by the law of sin and death is supplanted and you receive a new heart, a new life that is empowered by the law of the Spirit of life in Christ.
This higher law of life in Christ empowers you to live a superior life than the natural human life.
You are no longer compelled by an invisible appetite towards sin, because a greater power, a greater force, a superior spiritual law, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has separated you from sin and death and liberated you for the superior and excellent life of Christ’s righteousness. You now have the power at work in you that overcomes temptation when it comes, to resist the devil when he comes and to live in the fulness of the resurrection life in Christ Jesus, but it won’t happen automatically, you have to choose it. Whether you know this or not, the truth is that life is one of choice; choice between sin and death or the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus; and choosing Jesus Christ is the only way of choosing life.
Moses at age 120 at the conclusion of his ministry said to the children of Israel in one of his greatest teachings and departing sermons in Deuteronomy 30:14 – 19 “But the word is very nigh unto you, in thy mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it. 15 See, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil; 19 …I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life,”
How do I choose life Shingi? The Apostle Paul being moved by the Holy Spirit concludes Moses’s teaching over a thousand years later in Romans 10:8 – 10 and says “But what saith it? The word is nigh you, even in your mouth, and in your heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; 9 That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. 10 For with the heart man believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.”
Imagine meeting Moses one day and saying to him, “Sir, I heard your message, I made the right choice, thank you”. And then bumping into the Apostle Paul and saying “Sir, that letter to the church at Rome, I put it work, thank you Sir, I lived the superior life in Christ”. Oh what a day.
Choose the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus today.
Pray The Word
Heavenly Father, I thank You that Jesus Christ is Lord of my life today, and the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. I declare that I operate under this higher superior law, living in Your life and power. I am free from sin’s compulsion and death’s grasp living in the liberty with which Christ made me free, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Speak The Word
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death, for what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit!